Búsqueda de Editorial : W. W. NORTON & COMPANY

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  • URGENT ARCHITECTURE
    BRIDGETTE MEINHOLD
    How can we adequately provide housing when disaster strikes, whether that disaster is weather related, like hurricanes, floods, and droughts, happens in a matter of minutes from an earthquake or tsunami, through a slow process like rising sea levels, or is the result of civil disorder or poverty? There is an urgent need for safe, sustainable housing designs that are cheap to bu...

    S/. 168,00

  • CREATING CITYCENTER
    WILLIAM R. SMITH (AUTHOR), SCOTT J. TILDEN
    This essential walking companion and guide features 200 of the most notable buildings and spaces constructed in New York’s five boroughs since the new millennium - The High Line, by James Corner Field Operations/Diller Scofidio + Renfro; 100 Eleventh Avenue, by Ateliers Jean Nouvel; Brooklyn Children’s Museum, by Rafael Vinoly Architects; 41 Cooper Square, by Morphosis; Poe Par...

    S/. 151,00

  • THE ACOUSTICS OF PERFORMANCE HALLS
    JAFFE, J. CHRISTOPHER
    In The Acoustics of Performance Halls J. Christopher Jaffe, an acclaimed acoustician known for his innovative design concepts, describes the common misconceptions about what makes a successful classical concert space, explains that sound reflections rather than geometry are the key to developing an outstanding hall, and shows how a series of simple principles related to how hum...

    S/. 194,00

  • INCLUSIVE HOUSING: A PATTERN BOOK
    CENTER FOR INCLUSIVE DESIGN AND ENVIROMENTAL ACCESS

    S/. 154,00

  • PORTFOLIO DESIGN
    HAROLD LINTON
    Harold Lintons Portfolio Design has been the standard reference for students and young professionals in architecture, urban planning, landscape, and interior design who want to make the best impression possible in their applications for undergraduate and graduate school admissions, design grants, competitions, or in a job interview. Now, with the fourth edition, the book is bet...

    S/. 150,00

  • SALVAGE SECRETS DESIGN & DECOR
    JOANNE PALMISANO
    Following up on her celebrated first Salvage Secrets book, which Fine Homebuilding called "An invaluable first step in the salvage-for-design journey," here salvage design guru Joanne Palmisano takes readers further, exploring a wealth of smaller-scale interior design and decor concepts.Bottle caps turned into a kitchen backsplash, old bed springs reinvented as candle holders, ...

    S/. 118,00

  • THE PLANNING GAME
    GARVIN, ALEXANDER
    This book explains how. The Planning Game: Lessons from Great Cities provides a focused, thorough, and sophisticated overview of how planning works, generously illustrated with more than 200 colorful photgraphs, diagrams, and maps created expressly for the book . It presents the public realm approoach to planning- an approach that emphasizes the importance of public investments...

    S/. 200,00

  • THE VERTICAL GARDEN
    PATRICK BLANC
    Nobody is more familiar than Blanc with the secrets of the plants, from all over the world, that live on almost nothing, in the most unlikely situations, carpeting the forest understory in semi-darkness or clinging to rocky cliff faces. From Paris to Bangkok, from New York to Singapore, Blanc invites nature to flourish on the walls of museums, shopping malls, private homes, big...

    S/. 218,00

  • HOTEL DESIGN, PLANNING, AND DEVELOPMENT
    RICHARD H. PENNER, LAWRENCE ADAMS, STEPHANI K A ROBSON
    Hotel Design, Planning, and Development, Second Edition, is a thorough overview of the important and fast-growing hospitality industry. It is revised and expanded from the previous edition the bible for designers, developers, planners, and students. This edition, updated to include significant hotels developed internationally in the last ten years, outlines essential planning a...

    S/. 369,00

  • SOURCEBOOK OF SCANDINAVIAN FURNITURE
    JUDITH GURA
    The five countries known collectively as Scandinavia were the source of some of the most important furniture designs of the twentieth century and the influential concept of "Scandinavian modern." Today, a new generation of designers continues the tradition, creating pieces that are functional, comfortable, and appealing to look at. This book-the first American summary of modern...

    S/. 200,00

  • WATERCOLOR SKETCHING
    PAUL LASEAU
    A resource for both beginners and those returning to watercolor including traveling architects, artists, and designers this guide covers sketching on site, sketching in the studio, environmental color, color values, and more. Exercises depicting a range of subjects from architectural details to large landscapes provide practical experience with the medium." ...

    S/. 85,00

  • HOSPITAL AND HEALTHCARE FACILITY DESIGN
    RICHARD L. MILLER, EARL S. SWENSSON, J. TODD ROBINSON
    A celebrated standard for architects, planners, and hospital administrators, Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design has introduced three generations of students and professionals to the state-of-the-art practice of creating structures that are healing environments for those who are ill, while promoting wellness and comfort for all who use them. The third edition of this compre...

    S/. 385,00

  • RAILROAD STATIONS
    NAYLOR, DAVID
    Almost overnight railway lines sprawled across the United States, quickly assuming a key role in America´s rapid growth and development. Linking these lines that crisscrossed the map were th stations themselves, the very centerpieces-physica and metaphorical- of civic and cultural life in america. They were backdrops to commonplace comings and goings as well as public lecturer...

    S/. 252,00

  • GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY NEW YORK CITY ARCHITECTURE
    JOHN HILL
    This essential walking companion and guide features 200 of the most notable buildings and spaces constructed in New York’s five boroughs since the new millennium - The High Line, by James Corner Field Operations/Diller Scofidio + Renfro; 100 Eleventh Avenue, by Ateliers Jean Nouvel; Brooklyn Children’s Museum, by Rafael Vinoly Architects; 41 Cooper Square, by Morphosis; Poe Par...

    S/. 100,00

  • A HISTORY OF DESIGN FROM THE VICTORIAN ERA TO THE PRESENT
    ANN FEREBEE, JEFF BYLES
    A unique cross-disciplinary survey of design history, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present offers a concise overview of the modern milestones of architecture, interior design, graphic design, product design, and photography from the Crystal Palace of 1851 to the iPhone at the turn of the twenty-first century. This abundantly illustrated volume traces modern...

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  • WALLS
    GÜNTER MADER, ELKE ZIMMERMAN
    A systematic set of guidelines and an inspiring store of models for designers, builders, horticulturists, and landscape architects.Walls are fundamental elements of garden and landscape architecture, defining borders, creating spaces, and providing protection. This book, organized by construction method, construction materials, and type of finish, introduces the rich design pot...

    S/. 135,00

  • A NEW APPROACH TO SIGHT SINGING
    Perry Goldstein is Professor of Music at Stony Brook University, where he is responsible for all aspects of the undergraduate and graduate musicianship programs and also teaches music composition, theory, and analysis. His teaching has been recognized by Stony Brook University’s President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and by the State University of New York's Chancellor's ...

    S/. 608,00

  • CEMETERIES
    KEITH EGGENER
    A bountifully illustrated exploration of the cemetery in American landscape and narrative.The newest book in the Norton/Library of Congress takes readers on a visual journey from early churchyards and family plots to the establishment of the nation's first rural cemeteries of the nineteenth century, to the expansive memorial parks and 'green' burials of today. With more than 60...

    S/. 250,00

  • KEY URBAN HOUSING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. PLANS, SECTIONS AND ELEVATIONS
    HILARY FRENCH
    This book features some ninety of the most influential modern housing designs of the last hundred years by some of the best-known architects in the field. Each project is explained with a concise text and photographs and specially created scale drawings, including floor plans and site plans, sections and elevations where appropriate. The projects are organized in six roughly ch...

    S/. 215,00

  • ROBERT MOSES AND THE MODERN CITY
    BALLON,HILARY / JACKSON , KENNETH T.
    We are rebuilding New York, not dispersing and abandoning it: Robert Moses saw himself on a rescue mission to save the city from obsolescence, decentralization, and decline. His vast building program aimed to modernize urban infrastructure, expand the public realm with extensive recreational facilities, remove blight, and make the city more livable for the middle class. This bo...

    S/. 118,00

  • ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSIC (THE NORTON INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC HISTORY)
    MORGAN, ROBERT R.

    S/. 274,00

  • TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSIC: A HISTORY OF MUSICAL STYLE IN MODERN EUROPE AND AMERICA
    MORGAN , ROBERT

    S/. 310,00

  • HISTORICAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
    FRIEDMAN DONALD

    S/. 100,00

  • GREAT PUBLIC SQUARES
    GATJE, ROBERT

    S/. 240,00

  • THE URBAN DESIGN HANDBOOK
    URBAN DESIGN ASSOCIATES

    S/. 194,00

  • VISUAL DESIGN ON THE COMPUTER
    WONG, WUCIUS / WONG, BENJAMIN

    S/. 135,00

  • ADVERTISING: CONCEPT AND COPY
    FELTON, GEORGE
    Ideas are what make advertising great, but they're elusive, which is why great ads are so rare. Advertising: Concept and Copy covers the conceptual process, from developing smart strategy to executing it with strong, distinctive copy. Over two hundred ads, many in color, demonstrate the strong thinking and writing that underlie the best advertising. ...

    S/. 215,00

  • RETHINKING SITTING
    OPSVIK, PETER
    A Scandinavian furniture designer offers insight into his thinking about sitting and explains the philosophy that informs his pioneering chairs.For millions of years humans have led physically active lives. In recent centuries, however, industrialization has fostered passivity and the growing predominance of the sitting posture for more and more people. Increasingly, chairs and...

    S/. 154,00

  • MUSICS OF LATIN AMERICA
    ROBER MOORE, W. AARON

    S/. 389,00

  • THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WESTERN MUSIC VOL.1, VOL.2
    J. PETER BURKHOLDER, CLAUDE V. PALISCA

    S/. 459,00


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